Wing Walking provides a look at the personal motives that shape executive decisions at the highest levels. Egos and ambition, power and betrayal, love and longing weave together an engaging cast of characters in a tale that starts with the FDA recalling a blockbuster drug. With billions of dollars at stake, what follows is sometimes tragic, at times hopeful: a son tries to wrestle his family business from his father; a socially ambitious Englishman battles with his wife's embarrassing past; a Vietnam POW desperately seeks ...
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Wing Walking provides a look at the personal motives that shape executive decisions at the highest levels. Egos and ambition, power and betrayal, love and longing weave together an engaging cast of characters in a tale that starts with the FDA recalling a blockbuster drug. With billions of dollars at stake, what follows is sometimes tragic, at times hopeful: a son tries to wrestle his family business from his father; a socially ambitious Englishman battles with his wife's embarrassing past; a Vietnam POW desperately seeks to become the industry's leader while trying to control his growing affection for one of his colleagues. Eventually all three become entangled in an acquisitive struggle in which it's difficult to tell the winners from the losers.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Essentially as new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 203 p. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'Fresh Fiction for Fresh Water Fishing'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Very Good + Book. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR RARE SIGNED copy of this fictional story of "egos and ambition, power and betrayal, and love...set at the opening reception of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association annual meeting of 1989".